And judgment is turned away backward, and justice standeth afar off: for truth is fallen in the street, and equity cannot enter.


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Isaiah 59 9 Therefore is judgment far from us, neither doth justice overtake us: we wait for light, but behold obscurity; for brightness, but we walk in darkness.
Habakkuk 1 4 Therefore the law is slacked, and judgment doth never go forth: for the wicked doth compass about the righteous; therefore wrong judgment proceedeth.
Isaiah 29 21 That make a man an offender for a word, and lay a snare for him that reproveth in the gate, and turn aside the just for a thing of nought.
Isaiah 26 10 Let favour be shewed to the wicked, yet will he not learn righteousness: in the land of uprightness will he deal unjustly, and will not behold the majesty of the LORD.
Psalms 89 14 Justice and judgment are the habitation of thy throne: mercy and truth shall go before thy face.
Proverbs 12 13 The wicked is snared by the transgression of his lips: but the just shall come out of trouble.
Job 36 17 But thou hast fulfilled the judgment of the wicked: judgment and justice take hold on thee.
Luke 18 6 And the Lord said, Hear what the unjust judge saith.
Proverbs 11 7 When a wicked man dieth, his expectation shall perish: and the hope of unjust men perisheth.
Psalms 94 15 But judgment shall return unto righteousness: and all the upright in heart shall follow it.
Genesis 18 25 That be far from thee to do after this manner, to slay the righteous with the wicked: and that the righteous should be as the wicked, that be far from thee: Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?
Proverbs 11 21 Though hand join in hand, the wicked shall not be unpunished: but the seed of the righteous shall be delivered.
Proverbs 11 3 The integrity of the upright shall guide them: but the perverseness of transgressors shall destroy them.
Ecclesiastes 5 8 If thou seest the oppression of the poor, and violent perverting of judgment and justice in a province, marvel not at the matter: for he that is higher than the highest regardeth; and there be higher than they.
Deuteronomy 25 1 If there be a controversy between men, and they come unto judgment, that the judges may judge them; then they shall justify the righteous, and condemn the wicked.
Isaiah 59 4 None calleth for justice, nor any pleadeth for truth: they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity.
James 4 11 Speak not evil one of another, brethren. He that speaketh evil of his brother, and judgeth his brother, speaketh evil of the law, and judgeth the law: but if thou judge the law, thou art not a doer of the law, but a judge.
Colossians 3 25 But he that doeth wrong shall receive for the wrong which he hath done: and there is no respect of persons.
Isaiah 16 3 Take counsel, execute judgment; make thy shadow as the night in the midst of the noonday; hide the outcasts; bewray not him that wandereth.
Proverbs 2 22 But the wicked shall be cut off from the earth, and the transgressors shall be rooted out of it.
Psalms 37 30 The mouth of the righteous speaketh wisdom, and his tongue talketh of judgment.
Proverbs 29 27 An unjust man is an abomination to the just: and he that is upright in the way is abomination to the wicked.
Isaiah 26 7 The way of the just is uprightness: thou, most upright, dost weigh the path of the just.
Proverbs 19 28 An ungodly witness scorneth judgment: and the mouth of the wicked devoureth iniquity.
Proverbs 4 19 The way of the wicked is as darkness: they know not at what they stumble.
Proverbs 29 26 Many seek the ruler's favour; but every man's judgment cometh from the LORD.
Deuteronomy 1 17 Ye shall not respect persons in judgment; but ye shall hear the small as well as the great; ye shall not be afraid of the face of man; for the judgment is God's: and the cause that is too hard for you, bring it unto me, and I will hear it.
Jeremiah 5 28 They are waxen fat, they shine: yea, they overpass the deeds of the wicked: they judge not the cause, the cause of the fatherless, yet they prosper; and the right of the needy do they not judge.
Hosea 14 9 Who is wise, and he shall understand these things? prudent, and he shall know them? for the ways of the LORD are right, and the just shall walk in them: but the transgressors shall fall therein.
Proverbs 29 15 The rod and reproof give wisdom: but a child left to himself bringeth his mother to shame.
Isaiah 32 16 Then judgment shall dwell in the wilderness, and righteousness remain in the fruitful field.
Proverbs 11 6 The righteousness of the upright shall deliver them: but transgressors shall be taken in their own naughtiness.
Proverbs 29 18 Where there is no vision, the people perish: but he that keepeth the law, happy is he.
Proverbs 12 6 The words of the wicked are to lie in wait for blood: but the mouth of the upright shall deliver them.
Proverbs 10 32 The lips of the righteous know what is acceptable: but the mouth of the wicked speaketh frowardness.
Proverbs 13 18 Poverty and shame shall be to him that refuseth instruction: but he that regardeth reproof shall be honoured.
Proverbs 21 18 The wicked shall be a ransom for the righteous, and the transgressor for the upright.
Matthew 7 2 For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again.
Amos 5 24 But let judgment run down as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream.
2 Corinthians 6 8 By honour and dishonour, by evil report and good report: as deceivers, and yet true;
Proverbs 12 5 The thoughts of the righteous are right: but the counsels of the wicked are deceit.
Isaiah 28 17 Judgment also will I lay to the line, and righteousness to the plummet: and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding place.
Leviticus 19 15 Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment: thou shalt not respect the person of the poor, nor honor the person of the mighty: but in righteousness shalt thou judge thy neighbour.
Proverbs 10 6 Blessings are upon the head of the just: but violence covereth the mouth of the wicked.
Proverbs 29 16 When the wicked are multiplied, transgression increaseth: but the righteous shall see their fall.
Isaiah 26 6 The foot shall tread it down, even the feet of the poor, and the steps of the needy.
1 Corinthians 6 7 Now therefore there is utterly a fault among you, because ye go to law one with another. Why do ye not rather take wrong? why do ye not rather suffer yourselves to be defrauded?
Romans 2 13 For not the hearers of the law are just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified.
Isaiah 5 15 And the mean man shall be brought down, and the mighty man shall be humbled, and the eyes of the lofty shall be humbled:
Ezekiel 33 9 Nevertheless, if thou warn the wicked of his way to turn from it; if he do not turn from his way, he shall die in his iniquity; but thou hast delivered thy soul.